Women and literature in Britain, 1800-1900

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Introduction Vivien Jones Part I. Constructing Women in the Eighteenth Century: Section I. Eighteenth-Century Femininities: 1. Writings on education and conduct: arguments for female improvement Kathryn Sutherland 2. Eighteenth-century femininity: 'a supposed sexual character' Harriet Guest 3. Women and race: 'a difference of complexion' Felicity A. Nussbaum Section II. Women, Family, and the Law: 4. Women's status as legal and civic subjects: 'a worse condition than slavery itself?' Gillian Skinner 5. Women in families: the great disturbance Ruth Perry Section III. Women and Print: 6. Women and the business of print Paula McDowell 7. Women readers: a case study Jan Fergus Part II. Writing Women in the Eighteenth Century: 8. (Re)discovering women's texts Isobel Grundy 9. Women and the rise of the novel: sexual prescripts Ros Ballaster 10. Women poets of the eighteenth century Margaret Anne Doody 11. Women and the theatre Angela J. Smallwood 12. Women and popular culture: gender, cultural dynamics, and popular prints Dianne Dugaw 13. Varieties of women's writing Clare Brant Guide to further reading.

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